Former US general advises Switzerland to prepare for war.
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US troops often withdraw leaving way too much equipment behind.
I better not see civilians with "cool military" gear! That's worse than any weeb or m'ladyian/fedorian.
But maybe I get to burn a Humvee or two since we "lack" those (now obviously surplus too) cybertrucks over here.
Shoving helos off a carrier deck comes to mind, when we were actually trying to evacuate refugees instead of lowering plane flaps to push off the hangers on. Guess the Taliban has Strykers and MRAPs now just like our cops, yay murica
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Well, we sort of toppled an empire when we stole Hawaii, it literally was independent
Understood. I mean California Oregon, Louisiana and Texas were Mexican at some point and mexica before the Spaniards.
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Anyone taking bets which Country gets threatened next I'm thinking Jamaica had to hand over 50percent of its rum.
"Puerto Rico needs to end it's vicious trade war against the US or risk it's government being overthrown and made a US state."
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Understood. I mean California Oregon, Louisiana and Texas were Mexican at some point and mexica before the Spaniards.
Louisiana
Now France has entered the chat too! But yes, your point that history gets messy depending on the lense being used remains (at least, I hope I am not misrepresenting you)
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Louisiana
Now France has entered the chat too! But yes, your point that history gets messy depending on the lense being used remains (at least, I hope I am not misrepresenting you)
Well it was Spanish from 1763 to 1803. The USA began existing in 1776...in July of that year. When the French arrived, various Native American groups, including the Atakapa, Caddo, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Houma, Natchez, and Tunica tribes, lived in the area. You're totally right, it was actually never Mexican.
Even the California and Oregon thing is sort of a stretch. Like I'm sure there were settlements per the historical record. But I very much doubt they were actually identifying as the Mexicans we know and
love today. More like Spaniards and their slaves. There's actually a really old history pre-USA of mejican exploration to create a trade route to China. Lots of Chinese people traveled for trade to the Philippines and Mexico and the same for Mexicans. Along the trade route you can find all sorts of intermixing... Mexipinos, chinexicans, japaxincans, etc. -
"Puerto Rico needs to end it's vicious trade war against the US or risk it's government being overthrown and made a US state."
They better start exporting their bountiful electricity! They got so much of it, enough for a good 3 or 4 days of AI questions about how awesome our beautiful leader Mr orange is.
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Switzerland… war… lol
Switzerland is always prepared for war. Prepared to stay the fuck out of it and profit from it.
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Well it was Spanish from 1763 to 1803. The USA began existing in 1776...in July of that year. When the French arrived, various Native American groups, including the Atakapa, Caddo, Chitimacha, Choctaw, Houma, Natchez, and Tunica tribes, lived in the area. You're totally right, it was actually never Mexican.
Even the California and Oregon thing is sort of a stretch. Like I'm sure there were settlements per the historical record. But I very much doubt they were actually identifying as the Mexicans we know and
love today. More like Spaniards and their slaves. There's actually a really old history pre-USA of mejican exploration to create a trade route to China. Lots of Chinese people traveled for trade to the Philippines and Mexico and the same for Mexicans. Along the trade route you can find all sorts of intermixing... Mexipinos, chinexicans, japaxincans, etc.It wasn't called Louisiana before the French named it that, I was just having fun with the way you phrased to things
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It wasn't called Louisiana before the French named it that, I was just having fun with the way you phrased to things
Yeah no worries. It got me googling.
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Shoving helos off a carrier deck comes to mind, when we were actually trying to evacuate refugees instead of lowering plane flaps to push off the hangers on. Guess the Taliban has Strykers and MRAPs now just like our cops, yay murica
I feel sorry for their mechanics.
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its not about deciding who to govern here. burgeois elections in a burgeois state will only elect people aligned with their agenda, which means you will keep walking towards fascism regardless of who wins an election, and none of the alternatives will actually enact your will, even when they have a majority. democrats and their warmongering are especially bad to us in the periphery of the planet
as for solutions, join a leftist political organization or union. it will involve talking to people around you, striking, helping and building community and participating in direct action with systemic change in mind. the more people get involved, deeper gets the change we can enact. it doesn't have to involve capitalist institutions at all. in most socialist/anarchist systems they chose their leaders, yes, by debating and voting in a council but that assumes the system is not rigged against us, which pretty obviously is in capitalism for the reasons mentioned above and more.
you think us as blockheads because you probably read no political theory beyond liberalism, if that. be more open minded towards leftists, and do a bit of studying and you will notice our ideals are close to the left-leaning liberals. we think you as blockheads because you keep trying to change things in a misguided or misinformed way that is pretty obviously not solving any problems.
you can shake your fists all you want at the hefty percentage of people that recognize this (not only us leftists btw, which are a tiny minority in the US) and doesnt bother to vote, but you won't change anything because a compelling candidate for leadership is not viable in the current system. my country has mandatory voting and nothing changes either, electoralism is not the solution.
This reads like satire, a parody of tankies.
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According to former United States general Ben Hodges, the withdrawal of US troops from Europe is only a matter of time. In an interview with SonntagsBlick, he advises Switzerland to prepare for war.
“According to everything I hear from Washington, Europe is no longer a priority.” Trump sees China as the main opponent of the US.
This didn't start with Trump, it has been building for a long time. I haven't seen anyone spell it out so clearly before though.
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Anyone taking bets which Country gets threatened next I'm thinking Jamaica had to hand over 50percent of its rum.
This isn't really a threat, because the person saying it doesn't make those decisions.
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I feel sorry for their mechanics.
They’re about to learn the real lesson of the Big Green Weenie…logistics
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It’s hard to know where to begin with people like this. They are more ideologically unhinged than anyone in the Middle East, more indoctrinated than any communist, more institutionalised than a life sentence prisoner, and more ignorant than a drunken donkey.
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Switzerland… war… lol
Doing my service 🫡 (I am a conscript and don't want this)
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So how do you decide who gets to govern, if not through elections? And yes, I am very much a "hurr ml" person. I've rarely seen such an accumulation of blockheads outside r/thedonald, back in the day.
Elections don’t work when education has been systematically degraded. Elections don’t work when there are no restrictions on the amount of contributions that oligarchs can contribute to a political candidate. Elections don’t work when there is no safeguard against election tampering. Elections don’t work when oligarchs own the media.
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This reads like satire, a parody of tankies.
its literally the basics. you heard it before.
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Switzerland is always prepared for war. Prepared to stay the fuck out of it and profit from it.
I mean, if that’s an option …
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“According to everything I hear from Washington, Europe is no longer a priority.” Trump sees China as the main opponent of the US.
This didn't start with Trump, it has been building for a long time. I haven't seen anyone spell it out so clearly before though.
Maybe you weren't paying attention when Obama was president? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration
